Integral Inner Presence Model

Integral Inner Presence

Our Inner Presence is our state of being. It is the layer within us that influences all our actions, behaviors and outcomes in life. If our Inner Presence is resourceful, aligned and centered then our external manifestations are extraordinary, authentic and inspiring.

Though our Inner Presence is one ‘whole’ state of being it has at least eight distinct parts. To be resourceful at the Inner Presence level we need to be able to become self-aware and develop these parts distinctly.

Our Physical nature comprises of the first part of our being. This is composed of our body and its repetitive process of habit formation.

Our Vital Life Force comprises of the second, third and fourth parts of our being. This is composed of our sensations, energy of power & dynamism and emotions.

Our Mind and its thinking processes comprises of the fifth, sixth and seventh parts of our being. This is composed of the objective, creative and conceptual parts of the mind.

Our Deeper Self is our eighth and the key part of our being. This is composed of our Inner Guidance, Faith & Inner Resonance within. This is also the Transcendent Intuition, Peace and Wisdom beyond normal thinking function.

Our Integral Inner Presence Model gives the knowledge & awareness of all parts of your being. Our InStrengths™ tool helps you to map the quality and degree of resourcefulness of your inner strengths in each part of your being.

Parts of Being
To better understand each part of being of the ‘Integral Inner Presence’ model, click on each of the boxes below. Best self-awareness and a deeper intuitive understanding emerges when you connect to each part of being within you experientially, as you read about them.

Physical

The physical gives you health in the body and by repetition it gives stability in your chosen habits.

Physical

The physical comprises of the human body, its health and its nature of habit formation. When the body is well maintained with regular exercises, nourishing food, proper sleep, sufficient exposure to sun and fresh air it becomes healthy, supple, strong, energetic, fresh and gives a greater capacity to do one’s activities with full energy.

The body by and large works subconsciously having its own natural intelligence, equilibrium and rhythm.

When we are tuned to this natural rhythm the body functions in its natural best. When we are off the natural rhythm the body gets stressed, tired and weak.

The physical nature is also manifested as habits. Any habit takes time and repetition to form. Once formed, it takes time and repetition to undo and move beyond. Habits can be both empowering and limiting.

When you develop your physical to its fullest radiance you enjoy robust health. You have mastery over habits. You can change any habit you want. You can create any habit you want and hold it stable. This gives a solid grounding and foundation for the whole of your life and work.

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Health

To have health and energy in the body at all times and under all conditions

Physical Relaxation

To feel calm and relaxed in each part of the body

Grounded

To feel the stability in the body when standing and coordinated when it is moving

Physical Sensitivity

To recognize body’s signals of what the body needs in terms of what, when and how much it wants to consume, what is healthy or not healthy etc.

Stability of Habits

To be able to consistently follow a chosen habit or practice every day

Sensory Enjoyment

A full and aesthetic Sensory Enjoyment gives you the sense of joy, liveliness, fun, beauty and enjoyment.

Sensory Enjoyment

Our senses come alive when they are exposed to sensory stimuli, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Senses seek enjoyment at the level of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting.

The source of our enjoyments can be unrefined/basic and temporal giving a heightened but short-lived kick, or they can be aesthetic and refined giving a long lasting, subtler and fuller satisfaction of senses.

Nature is one of the most abundant sources for aesthetic form of sensory stimuli and enjoyment that uplifts us.

This part of being is also the domain of seeking comfort, enjoying the small things in life and leisure. When there is sufficient sensory enjoyment, fun and recreation present, life and work becomes joyful and there is a spring in one’s step and melody in one’s heart.

When fully purified and refined the senses turn towards beauty and aesthetic forms of nourishment.

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Sensory Acuity

To subtly sense differences in the taste, colors, sounds, smell and touch one experiences

Sensory Enjoyment

To enjoy and relish the tiny pleasures of life; to experience gratification of senses when satisfied

Leisure

To enjoy free time to explore one’s hobbies and relaxation activities

Aesthetic sense

To seek sensory stimuli that is beautiful, melodious, soothing and balanced

Comfort Satisfaction

To utilize and cherish the comforts present in one’s life, to make life easy, simple and convenient.

Dynamic Energy

Dynamic energy gives you the drive to succeed, grow, overcome challenges and motivates you to keep progressing and developing.

Dynamic Energy

This is the energy of action and passion. This is the energy that is ready to take on any challenge to overcome it victoriously. This is the drive to progress forward and accomplish what seems impossible at this point of time.

This is the relentless force to fight out all odds, expand, reach new frontiers and succeed. Success is a need, success is a mantra and success is a way of life here.

However long it takes this energy can endure any hardships to taste victory.

This energy is tremendously motivated and feels that every obstacle has to be conquered, every competition has to be won and surpassed and every part of the world should be touched by one’s name and fame.

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Personal Power

To hold within a sense of power and authority with or without any titles or positions given.

Courageous

To directly face any situation, undeterred by the magnanimity of the challenge

Success Driven

To strive to be victorious and successful in any circumstance

Confidence

To feel self-assured and self-reliant at all times and feeling of being able to tackle any situation.

Risk Taking

To be daring, bold and adventurous in exploring the unexplored terrains.

Challenge Seeking

To be attracted to tough situations to taste the exhilaration of overcoming it or succeeding in it.

Emotional Care

Emotional Care gives the urge to connect and bond with the other, to care, to belong and share. It opens the giving of the heart to offer itself for the collective wellbeing.

Emotional Care

Here the heart opens up to connect to the other, to bond and care, to belong and share. The heart enlarges and deepens and the other’s needs and aspirations become important. The heart feels drawn upon to do whatever is possible in one’s capacity to support the other so that they are happy and fulfilled. When the emotional care is developed to its fullest radiance the heart is fully open to give, contribute and make a positive difference to others.

The heart places the need of the collective and others above one and work towards their wellbeing and advancement. This is a direct heart-to-heart connection that can last even if one is not in constant touch with the other or they are across geographies.

There is a tender, warm and vulnerable feeling present within. This heart wants to trust and confide in the other. More than wanting to receive, it wants to give, share and offer all of itself and its gifts, talents and resources to larger good of family, organisation, society, country, environment and world at large.

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Emotional Care

To be moved to understand the other and support them in their needs.

Acceptance

To acknowledge and respect the other for the qualities they have and for whom they are.

Emotional Connect

To feel a genuine and warm heart-to-heart connect with others we interact with and cherish the bond shared through this connection.

Large Hearted

To identify from the heart with the larger team/ family, organisation/ institution, community, society, country and environment one is a part of and feel its needs, as one’s own needs.

Giving

To feel the joyful urge to offer oneself and one’s gifts and talents for the well-being of others and bring joy into their lives.

Self-Care

To love, honor, respect and deeply care for one-self.

Objective Mind

Objective mind makes the mind sharp, precise, alert, methodical and practical. This is the mind that is scientific, fact-based, evidence centered and practical.

Objective Mind

This is the part of the mind that can observe what is happening in reality, gathering information, analyzing data and communicating one’s views into the world. Its role is to objectify and make the known knowledge concrete and tangible so that it can be clearly and precisely understood and expressed. This would include making the knowledge specific, measurable, chunked and relatable to known terms.

This mind can observe and gather minute details about anything we pay attention to. This mind believes in or accepts something as valid only when it can be verified objectively with data that conforms to the current benchmarks and set standards.

This part of mind is process based and methodical; often working with observable data, ordering, classifying them and drawing interpretations and inferences from the data observed and classified.

This part of the mind prioritizes what is important. It quantifies experiences and competencies, so that they can be observed using clear indicators and their different levels of expertise can be accurately differentiated. This is the practical mind and what is material and real are most important to it. This mind is the ‘form’ giver to knowledge, rules and guidelines setter and the framer of yardsticks and measures that governs thinking, analyzing and expressing.

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Fact/ Data Based

To look for what is actually observable in the current moment or what has been documented from the past; to accept it as a fact only when it can be verified with known and established information

Objectivity

To look at any information from its own reference point or perspective rather than from one’s personal lens or preferences

Detailed Oriented

An Eye for detail; to comprehensively and exhaustively observe something

Precision

To differentiate the subtle meanings in language so that the exact and correct words are used in communication; to measure and state with accuracy

Time Estimation

To prioritize and chunk tasks; and accurately evaluate the time it will take to be completed.

Methodical

To systematically and logically follow a established plan or procedure

Idea Force

This is the force of creative imagination that helps in manifesting/ implementing ideas, philosophies, values, principles or concepts in life and work. It frees the mind from what is already known and established, to glimpse the potential of a new idea or vision.

Its interest is to transform and evolve life and work to become closer to one’s ideals, ideologies and principles, enabling one to live a principle centered life.

This is the force of imagination that can visualize in the mind as to how change can unfold that is aligned to purpose and principle.

The idea force part of mind is a realm of purposeful creation and ideation, turning concepts into workable applicable solutions in real life. This part of the mind generates innovative, creative and breakthrough ideas.

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Purposeful Creation

To be innovative in creating ideas or solutions that are congruent to one’s vision and purpose.

Ideation

To travel with an idea in imagination and envisage how it could unfold or manifest itself in real life without any past reference points.

Symbolic Understanding

To receive, process and understand information through images, symbols or metaphors.

Manifesting idea/ implementing concepts

To strategize how to implement the contemplated ideas or concepts into real life to change and transform life and work.

Principle Centered Living

To envision and embed one’s values and central governing principles into one’s actions and behaviors.

Pure Mind

Pure mind stands back and culls out whole views, core truths and provides systemic understanding. It supports in organizing the mind into an integrated cohesive whole.

Pure Mind

This is the highest part of the mind that deals with ideas, concepts, theories and philosophies. Its wants to know the meaning behind all that is happening in life and in the world and it wants to frame a whole view or a holistic model to understand them.

It culls out the core essence of all the known information circulating in one’s mind. This is the Meta mind that is interested in the essential universal truth. It looks at the essential concepts behind all the concepts; core principles behind all principles.

It then clarifies the central connecting thread or idea beneath all these essential concepts and core principles and weaves them together to form a synthesized cohesive whole.

This mind admits knowledge from all sides, reflects and contemplates upon it, culls out any additional universal truthor idea present, and widens the mind to hold the essence of this additional truth or idea forming a new synthesis in the mind. A perfected pure mind is an ordered, cohesive and clear mind that can then prepare to be quiet enough to receive intuition beyond mental striving.

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Core Purpose

To clarify and re-clarify one’s core values, ideologies and life purpose that govern the whole of one’s life and work.

Conceptual Understanding

To frame and use mental models to understand any experience, phenomenon or happening to get an over view/ holistic explanation for what is unfolding.

Culling Out Essence

To contemplate upon the concepts, philosophies, ideologies and values and extract the essential universal truth beneath them.

Mental Widening

To co-hold larger complexities, paradigms or paradoxes and enrich or evolve one’s mental frameworks to include all these diverse views points.

Mental Synthesis

To integrate in the mind various diverse core concepts, paradigms or world-views to formulate a central concept, paradigm or world-view that takes in the best of each of the individual view points and weaves them together as a comprehensive whole.

Deeper Self

Deeper Self is the Inner Guide, the tiny voice and the subtle resonance within us that directs our evolution. It is also the quiet opening to the domain of direct intuitive knowing.

Deeper Self

When you develop your deeper self to its fullest radiance you are in touch with the indwelling calmness, peace and authenticity. You are naturally tuned to your inner guide that takes you towards increasing truth, goodness, beauty and perfection in your life and work.

You experience unconditional love, faith, gratitude, trust, subtle tenderness and vulnerability in the depths of your heart. Your life and work is a sacred offering. Your mind can be silent to receive the light of wisdom and intuition.

Your heart directly senses the inner resonance that points to your true & authentic self and your natural calling in life and work.

At its best you are truly you and through your true self you make a meaningful and fulfilling contribution to the collective you are a part of.

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Unshaken faith

To believe in a Higher Source or Presence. To believe unwaveringly that ultimately one’s deepest aspirations in life and work will be manifested.

Inner Calling

To be aware of one’s life purpose and mission and being fully true and authentic to the same.

Inner Peace & Calm

Being connected to a solid sense of peace and calmness no matter what storms rage within or outside.

Silence in the mind

To be in a state of relaxed and concentrated silence in the mind.

Intuitive Knowing

To know the truth of things instantly without having to think through and analyse.

Sensing resonance

To feel that subtle pulse of heart or gentle inner voice that points instantaneously a direction that is inspiring and resonating from within; Spontaneous recognition to truth, good and beauty.

Unconditional Gratitude

To be in a state of deep and profound thankfulness for every situation in life and work.